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Anthony D. Romero is the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a major American non-profit organization with headquarters in New York City, whose stated mission is to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.[1] It...
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Life
Romero was born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents Demetrio and Coralie Romero. He was raised in the Bronx. Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City 1,214. ...
The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of United States. ...
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Education Romero was the first member of his family to graduate high school. He is a graduate of Stanford University Law School and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs. He was a Dinkelspiel Scholar at Stanford, a Cane Scholar at Princeton, and a National Hispanic Scholar at both institutions. (The wind of freedom blows. ...
Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ...
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American Civil Liberties Union Anthony Romero became executive director in September 2001, a week before the September 11, 2001 attacks. He is the first openly gay man and the first Hispanic director of the civil liberties institution. In his time as the executive director, he "...almost doubled the budget of the organization and increased the national staff by over 75% since he began his tenure"[1]. The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly targeting civilians, carried out on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. ...
Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ...
The Hispanic world Hispanic (Spanish Hispano, from Latin HispÄnus, adjective from HispÄnia, Iberian Peninsula) is a term denoting a derivation from Spain, its people and culture. ...
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In his capacity as ACLU head, he opposes the Bush administration's execution of the campaign against international terrorism. Referring to the August 17, 2006 federal court declaration that the "Terrorist Surveillance Program" was unconstitutional: The Bush administration includes President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Bushs Cabinet, and other select officials and advisors. ...
Terrorism is a controversial term with multiple definitions. ...
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- He called the opinion “another nail in the coffin in the Bush administration’s legal strategy in the war on terror.” (MSNBC)
[edit] The war on terrorism or war on terror (abbreviated in U.S. policy circles as GWOT for Global War on Terror) is an effort by the governments of the United States and its principal allies to destroy groups deemed to be terrorist (primarily radical Islamist organizations such as al-Qaeda...
Miscellaneous Anthony Romero serves on or associates with a number of organizations, boards of directors, and others. He is the chairman of the Center of Disability and Advocacy Rights, vice chairman of the New World Foundation's Board of Directors and a member the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York State Bar Association and Hispanics in Philanthropy. In addition, he has sat on the board of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own award for free expression. The Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American foreign policy think tank based in New York City. ...
The PEN/Newmans Own First Amendment Award is a $25,000 annual award designed to honor an individual who has prevailed over considerable odds in defending freedom of expression in the United States as it applies to the written word: in books, newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, film scripts and...
In the past, he was the Vice Chairman of the White House Internship Advisory Committee and acted as Co-Chairman of the Funders' Committee for Citizen Participation. He was also Director of Human Rights and International Cooperation at the Ford Foundation, which turned "into Ford's largest and most dynamic grant making unit" under his leadership [2]. Prior to this position, he served as Program Officer for Civil Rights and Racial Justice for the Ford Foundation. He has also been part of the Rockefeller Foundation. Management characterizes the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization (often a business) through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). ...
A right is the power or privilege to which one is justly entitled or a thing to which one has a just claim. ...
The Ford Foundation is a charitable foundation based in New York City created to fund programs that promote democracy, reduce poverty and promote international understanding (see mission statement). ...
The Rockefeller Foundation is a charitable organization based in New York City. ...
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Recognition In 2005, he was named one of Time Magazine's 25 Most Influential Hispanics. Additionally, Time has named him "The Champion of Civil Rights." (Clockwise from upper left) Notable Time magazine covers from the dates May 7, 1945; July 20, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ...
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See also [edit] list of famous Puerto Ricans in alphabetical order by last names, where applicable. ...
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